{"id":137768,"date":"2025-06-17T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/137768\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:50:10","slug":"ex-bears-coach-matt-eberflus-responds-to-caleb-williams-tape-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/137768\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Bears coach Matt Eberflus responds to Caleb Williams tape controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Eberflus made many mistakes as the Bears\u2019 head coach, but there\u2019s one that he\u2019s disputing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the development of the quarterback position, and really all positions at my time with the Bears, we always had daily, coached film sessions,\u201d Eberflus said on \u201cThe Doomsday Podcast\u201d to host Ed Werder<\/a>. \u201cThat was all through the entire year. So, that\u2019s what I observed and that\u2019s where it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

This comes after it was reported that Chicago\u2019s then-rookie quarterback and No. 1 overall draft pick Caleb Williams would watch game and practice film with no guidance from his coaching staff.<\/p>\n

Matt Eberflus speaks with Ed Werder on \u201cThe Doomsday Podcast\u201d and addresses claims that Caleb Williams received no help in film sessions. The Doomsday Podcast<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one tells me what to watch,\u201d Williams told his dad, Carl, according to ESPN<\/a>. \u201cI just turn it on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams, and especially his father, reportedly wanted no part in heading to the Bears in the 2024 draft because of their infamous history with quarterbacks \u2014 rarely ever building any promising franchise cornerstone at the position.<\/p>\n

Caleb Williams will be under new coaching in his second NFL season. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want my son playing for the Bears,\u201d Carl told several agents in 2024, as reported by ESPN from Seth Wickersham\u2019s upcoming book \u201cAmerican Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I want to go there? I don\u2019t think I can do it with [former Bears offensive coordinator Shane] Waldron,\u201d Wickersham quoted Caleb Williams saying in the book.<\/p>\n

Well, the Williamses were onto something as Eberflus and Waldron were fired midseason<\/p>\n

Matt Eberflus was fired from the Bears head coaching position in November 2024. AP<\/p>\n

A disconnect was clearly present with the quarterback and his coaches, as seen on the field and with Eberflus\u2019 most recent comment addressing the film-watching criticisms.<\/p>\n

Williams struggled with the coaching carousel and the revolving-door-esque linemen in front of him in his rookie season, as he was sacked a league-high 68 times.<\/p>\n

But with a revamped offensive line and former Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson taking over as head coach, the exciting flashes seen by Williams at times last season could very well become a more regular occurrence this year.<\/p>\n

As for Eberflus, he\u2019s heading into his first season as the Cowboys\u2019 defensive coordinator as he hopes to revitalize his coaching career \u2014 without any reports surrounding his coaching practices or any responsibilities to develop a franchise quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Eberflus made many mistakes as the Bears\u2019 head coach, but there\u2019s one that he\u2019s disputing. \u201cIn the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,1036,692,391,2493,7,6,9,10,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-137768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-caleb-williams","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-entertainment","17":"tag-sports-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114700446877434673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}